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Tuesday, 10 January 2017

SECOND quake in Canadian Arctic

A
SECOND earthquake has taken place within 24 hours, in the Barrow
Strait waterway, north of the Arctic Circle. Today's quake
measured Magnitude 5.2 and was at a shallow depth of about 15 km.

This
comes only eighteen hours after an earlier, larger, deeper quake,
measuring Magnitude 5.8 in almost the identical location!

The
two quakes have taken place in an area where there are no
known active seismic faults.

In
addition, the area in which these quakes has taken place is made up
of such old, hard rock, the vibrations from both quakes traveled
extraordinary distances, being detected on Seismographs at the
Yellowstone National Park super-volcano, 2144 miles to the southwest,
and also being recorded on the US Geological Survey ANSS Backbone, as
far away as New Mexico!

Here
is one of the seismograms from Yellowstone showing both quakes, the
larger at the top, and today's at the bottom - both in red:

It
is very unusual for earthquakes of this size to strike in this
location, and extraordinary that two such quakes have struck in the
same area within 18 hours. Scientists cannot offer an
explanation for these developments.